Research Interests

Biographical Note

Since Jan 2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, coordinator of the GIF project “Why to know or not to know? Stakeholders' attitudes towards prodromal dementia diagnosis: Psycho-social and ethical implications in cross-cultural comparison“(PI: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz & Prof. Dr. Perla Werner) (Project Website)

Since Jan 2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine within the project “Mind the Risk: Ethical, Psychological and Social Implications of Risk Information from Genetic to Related Technologies” (PI: Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz, Project Coordinator: Dr. Sabine Wöhlke) (Project Website)

2016-2017: Associate Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada.

2015: Ph.D. in Biomedical Ethics and Law, at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Ph.D. Thesis: Organ Selling, Human Dignity and its Violation: A Critical Assessment of the Role of Dignity in the Contemporary Debate on Commercialization of Organs (Supervisor: Dr. Holger Baumann)

2008-2010: Personal Assistant of Prof. Dr. Yaman Örs. Performed archival research, helped in systematising the academic and non-academic work of Prof. Dr. Yaman Örs. Edited and co-authored his book on Ethics (The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Ethics from the Perspective of a Scientific Philosopher Yaman Ors).

2009: M.A. in the Department of Philosophy, The Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.